🇦🇺 👨💻Old school software geek, atheist, and sexagenarian (because I'm sexy?).
Sometimes uses naughty words.
Be excellent to each other!
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Interested in #DevRel, #Docker, #Linux, #Python, #Go, Programming Tech, Tech education, #DocsAsCode, and #Stoicism. Currently learning how to integrate #Obsidian into my workflows.
Location: Bunurong Land, Melbourne, Australia
Pronouns: he/him (https://pronoun.is/he)
Contact details on my vanity site, no time wasters please!
| Personal Site | https://alecthegeek.gitlab.io/ |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecclews/ | |
| GitLab | https://gitlab.com/alecthegeek |
| GPG | https://keyoxide.org/hkp/BF8AE8CC9DA3C1E3C5BD0CDD3FE7B98F9BBBFC7C |
I am trying to close my #QantasAirways account after recent data breach. They don't make it easy.
Plus the account security is very poor.The use SMS 2FA in some places and Auth App TOTP in others (if you enable it).
I struggled to set a new 4 digit PIN as the UX is so piss poor
And I can only use 4 digit PIN. No facility for a secure password/passphrase or a passkey.
A brief history of gun control in America:
NRA: We need unlimited firearms to stop tyrannical government
Black people: Sounds good, we are open carrying in California
NRA: Not so fast. We're banning firearms
[ICE raids California, targets Black and brown people with illegal arrests]
Black and brown people: Hey NRA, here's that tyrannical government you mentioned
NRA: Oh, we meant tyranny against white people. We're perfectly good with fascists targeting you
The End
Just read this article on the AU Gov age verification trial for social media (laws coming in to keep under 16 off social media).
Scant on details and full of equivocation. I am not confident they can make this work.
I am also not happy about the excuse to collect even more info about me.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-20/age-assurance-trial-preliminary-report/105440288
git commit -am "Many changes again"
Sometimes I scare myself
Over the last 12 months I have been helping local seniors with #CyberSecurity
It's shameful how hard *we have made it for everyone to be safe online.
I'm not even asking for privacy here, just basic financial and account security.
I feel ashamed.
* I mean us computer geeks
This is worth a read if you work in the tech industry (or even just use their products as we all do)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/11/big-tech-muslim-workers-gaza-israel
Charlie Balogh
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
kopper
Gabe Schuyler